A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'el'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.9299
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 159.3 15 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of el in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
'"We'el thoo kens whut id's like tae on page 15

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ey ower tae the auld toon - 'El Carmen'. Aire, ye'll fin the on page 3

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
oup we a bit o’ lean tae bi’el n ‘en sup jist th bree o’ t(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
his game so far hus been nae 'El Classico' and Aldo will need on page 109

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
frae:- http://www.opera.com (EL) Ane o the oot-comes o the ne
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
suppliers poackets. Cunts nae El Chapo, evidently. But he cert
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
or even a Luxembourg - yon's El Dorado tae yer wid-be El Dora
Dorado tae yer wid-be El Dorados, catnip tae yer tinpo
2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an familiar faces, el even throw in a brief on page 1
El turn yi inta half thi man on page 2
el hid a weh o talkin we eis on page 3
el tak a handful o these on page 18
El burst yir bubble on page 74
Also on pages 95, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 115
15 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
sore face fur you. 'Awright, el sannn .,.in that shop, two bo on page 40

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Auld Reekie, a've known ye we'el on page 16
e howfs and dens, kent sae we'el on page 41
Her warm embrace we' el kent on page 49

5 matches

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